Community Engagement to Facilitate Legitimise and Accelerate the Advancement of GMOs in Australia

Despite promises that community engagement activities will enable policy makers to identify complex and contested community attitudes, and that these will be included as part of the policy making process, a closer look at Australia’s engagement activities reveals something quite different. Our analysis reveals the extent to which industry interests have captured policy makers and regulators, dissenting voices have been excluded from engagement processes, and engagement processes have not connected with actual policy making activities. Reflecting on these limits, this paper concludes with recommendations for improving public engagement processes related to nanotechnologies in Australia.

Confronting Power provides an academically rigorous, yet practical and comprehensive framework and concepts for planning, implementing and evaluating...

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Movement Building Center

Movement builders constantly engage core allies, the public, and people in positions of power to address systemic problems and promote alternative visions or solutions. Movement building can strengthen and provide direction during peak movement moments. In quieter times, movement building plays a crucial role in nurturing leadership, consciousness, and infrastructure. Movement building is a developmental process that depends on opportunity and conditions. It includes the historic moment of a fully active social movement, as well as the long-term process that led to it.

3.0

2014-12-04T17:16:54+00:00

Movement builders constantly engage core allies, the public, and people in positions of power to address systemic problems and promote alternative visions or solutions. Movement building can strengthen and provide direction during peak movement moments. In quieter times, movement building plays a crucial role in nurturing leadership, consciousness, and infrastructure. Movement building is a developmental...

Angela Davis

It is extremely important not to assume that there are 'communities of color' out there fully formed, conscious of themselves, just waiting for vanguard organizers to mobilize them into action... We have to think about organizing as producing the communities, as generating community, as building communities of struggle.

3.0

2014-06-10T11:10:53+00:00

It is extremely important not to assume that there are ‘communities of color’ out there fully formed, conscious of themselves, just waiting for vanguard organizers to mobilize them into action… We have to think about organizing as producing the communities, as generating community, as building communities of struggle.

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/angela-davis/

Michael Albert, ‘The trajectory of change’

Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society's defining relations.

2014-03-30T09:07:42+00:00

Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society’s defining relations.

Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be?

2014-03-30T08:12:51+00:00

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be?

http://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/nelson-mandela/

Richard Healey & Sandra Hinson, ‘Rhyming Hope and HIstory’ 2005

The tools that groups use for power analysis tend to be one-dimensional snapshots - forcefield analysis, mapping the alignment of groups and resources, and so on. Power maps are a particularly useful tools for developing issue campaigns. However, these one-dimensional tools do not lend themselves to an analysis that pushes the theoretical boundaries beyond the groups' pluralist assumptions.

2014-03-30T08:28:29+00:00

The tools that groups use for power analysis tend to be one-dimensional snapshots – forcefield analysis, mapping the alignment of groups and resources, and so on. Power maps are a particularly useful tools for developing issue campaigns. However, these one-dimensional tools do not lend themselves to an analysis that pushes the theoretical boundaries beyond the...

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